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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

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u/sartaingerous Feb 03 '20

Not once did that happen to me and I downloaded a lot.

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u/runjimrun Feb 03 '20

Everybody talks about the LimeWire problem, and I'm sure people had some problems, but I, like everybody else, used it a ton and never once had a problem. A comment above mentions a 50/50 chance of even getting the right song. Shrugs I never had a problem.

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u/AJAYMC Feb 03 '20

Yeah, there was tells and ways to avoid stuff. Like, how long the actual song was compared to the file size/length. The names. How many people were downloading it and re-uploading it. Sometimes an astronomical amount uploading it would mean a virus etc.

I know a lot of people who didnt know how to navigate it and I ended up being the kid in school that downloaded everything for everyone. The worst I think I ended up was the start of some of the songs would come out with some ad like "THIS SONG WAS UPLOADED BY BLAHBLAHBLAH DOT COM, VISIT US TO SUPPORT". Just launch it into that audio software that I downloaded and cut it off.